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Griffin Daily News Saturday, March 19,1977
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Conley sentenced to life
OXFORD, N.C. (AP) - Supe
rior Court Judge Thorn
burg sentenced Reuben Sonny
Conley to a mandatory life pris
on sentence Friday night after
Conley was convicted of first
degree murder in the death of a
Virginia state Trooper.
Conley’s court-appointed law
yers said they would appeal the
decision, and Thornburg gave
them 50 days to file the appeal
with the state Supreme Court.
Conley, 33, of Atlanta, was
found guilty by a jury of six men
and six women in Granville
County Superior Court that
deliberated a total of nearly
four hours.
The jury first returned a find
ing Friday evening after delib
erating about two hours that
Conley killed Virginia state
trooper Garland Fisher, 33, of
Dinwiddie County, Va., at a
roadblock shootout Nov. 15 on
Interstate 85 near here and that
he was sane at the time.
Thornburg cautioned that the
initial verdict technically was
not a conviction of murder and
that the jury still had to decide
whether the verdict would be
DIRECTOR ELECTED
SOCIETY FELLOW
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -
Richard J. Boyle, director of
the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts was recently elected
a Benjamin Franklin Fellow of
the Royal Academy of Arts.
The Royal Academy, whose
patron is Queen Elizabeth II
and president is Prince Philip,
was founded in 1754 for the
“extension and dissemination of
all branches of practical knowl
edge.” Boyle has been director
of the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts since 1973.
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Located On High Falls Road
This Sat. nite 7:00 PRAISE SING: With Ron Smith & His
Evangelistic Team. Also: Terry Skinner & The Heirs of
Glory.
This Sunday:
Sunday School 9:45 A.M.
Morning Worship 11:00 A.M.
Ron Smith To Minister In Song and In the Word At Both
Services Sunday.
Sunday Evening Service 6:00 P.M.
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tended the trial, said she found
it hard to understand why the
jury found Conley sane. “Even
though they sent him to jail,
he’s still going to need treat
ment,” she said.
Assistant defense attorney
John H. Pike said he was sur
prised by the verdict. “I thought
it would be second (degree
murder). I just didn’t think they
could overlook it all. But I guess
they could,” he said.
The prosecution rested its
case Thursday after calling 20
witnesses in three days to show
that Conley abducted Fisher in
Dinwiddie County, Va., and
forced him at gunpoint to drive
toward Atlanta.
The journey ended when
North Carolina highway patrol
men set up a roadblock and
Fisher died in a hail of gunfire.
Although Fisher was shot 13
times, the prosecution success
fully contended the fatal shot
was fired by Conley. An autopsy
showed Fisher also had been
shot by state troopers.
The defense began its case
Friday morning and testimony
ended at 11 a.m. Three wit
nesses were called in 90 minutes
guilty of first degree or second
degree murder.
The first degree murder ver
dict was returned shortly after
10:30 p.m., after the jury took a
dinner break and deliberated at
least an hour and 40 minutes
longer.
Fisher’s wife Sandra, who sat
silently through most of the
five-day trial, said after the
verdict was reached, “I don’t
see how it could have turned out
any other way.”
Conley’s girl friend Beverly
Haynes, 20, of Atlanta, who a-
in an attempt to show Conley
was insane at the time of the
shooting.
Dr. Billy W. Royall, a psy
chiatrist who examined Conley
at Dorothea Dix Hospital in
Raleigh after his capture, said
the defendant “had a paranoid
personality...and on occasion he
might be psychotic.”
Under cross examination,
however, Royall said he “could
not come to an opinion” about
whether Conley knew right
from wrong.
Dr. Robert Harper, who also
gave Conley a psychiatric ex
amination, said he felt that
Conley, despite his “psychotic
state of delusion...still knew the
difference between right and
wrong.”
‘Try ’em, you’ll like ’em’
‘Taste like shredded wheat’
Progress reported in campaign
to popularize earthworm dishes
SEATTLE (AP) - When you
peddle earthworms as food fit
for humans, there’s nowhere to
go but up. Sure enough, Ronald
Gaddie is reporting progress in
his campaign to popularize the
dish.
For a second year, Gaddie’s
North American Bait Famas
Inc. is sponsoring a nationwide
worm recipe contest. Gaddie
says the number of entries has
soared over last year — from
200 to 500.
Last year’s winner was
Earthworm Applesauce Sur
prise Cake.
“Try ’em, you’ll like them,”
said Gaddie in a telephone in
terview from Centralia, Wash.,
where he teaches classes to
prospective earthworm raisers
at Pacific Northwest Bait and
Ecology. That firm sells worms
to Gaddie’s company, which is
based in Ontario, Calif.
Worms "taste like shredded
wheat,” said Gaddie. “I like
them best in oatmeal cookies,
but I’ve eaten them with rice,
sprinkled on top of salads rather
than bacon bits, with scrambled
eggs and with steak and
gravy.”
For those concerned about
nutrition, Gaddie says earth
worms are 72 per cent protein
and less than one per cent fat.
For those who like the termi
nology of haute cuisine, there is
always the name “ver de
Terre.”
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ATLANTA, Ga.—This is not an extra-terrestrial being. It is the patented Invention of Athens
designer Michael Dillon, who is explaining the “Electric Vertical Garden” to Marian
Ashley, of the Federal Energy Administration. The special “citizen town hall meeting”,
held at the Atlanta Civic Center on Thursday, was an open forum for energy conservation
ideas. Dillon’s contraption is 3 feet in diameter and can produce as much as a 16-10 foot
garden. (AP)
Mary Croslin, who owns Pa
cific Northwest Bait and Ecolo
gy, is raising 5.3 million worms
in beds filled with manure.
“It’s kind of shocking the first
time you eat one, but now I don’t
even think about it,” she said.
When salted they taste like
jerky, she said.
Gaddie said he once ate
worms every day for three
months.
“They didn’t hurt me,” he
added.
The only way he doesn’t par
ticularly like them is raw.
“I know some people who
suck them like spaghetti, but I
could never do that," he says.
The Seattle office of the fed
eral Food and Drug Adminis
tration was asked about Gad
die’s nutritional claims, but it
said it could neither confirm nor
Plains
farmland
auctioned
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - Farm
ers near President Carter’s
home town will have a pretty
good idea of what their land is
worth when today’s auction of a
l,os6racre farm is completed.
About 300 acres of the land
offered today was once owned
by the Carter family.
The President’s sister, Gloria
Carter Spahn, sold the land to
W. O. Cochran, who is selling
his farm at auction to get away
from the hustle and bustle
which has come to this small
farm town since Jimmy Carter
was elected President.
“John Q. Public is going to
tell us what that land is worth,”
said Tom Davis, president of T.
Lynn Davis Realty, Macon, Ga.,
which is handling the sale.
Davis said Friday he has no
idea how many potential buyers
might show up for the sale.
“Anything I’d say would be a
guess, and my guess is no better
than anybody elses,” he said by
telephone from his office.
The land for sale surrounds
Mrs. Spahn’s home, but it isn’t
all that close to Jimmy Carter’s
house.
The Carter family lived on the
northwest side of Plains, a
circular town exactly one mile
in diameter. The land for sale is
just southeast of the city.
Mrs. Spahn and her husband
own 15 acres and are afraid it
will be surrounded by motels,
businesses or tourist attract
ions.
deny them.
“It’s something we haven’t
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an FDA spokesman.
33 arrested
in drug bust
THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) -
State and local authorities be
gan arresting 33 persons Friday
who were indicted on drug
Carter faces
opposition
NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) —
President Carter faces opposi
tion to his effort to reorganize
the federal government but he
intends to follow through, be
ginning with the executive of
fice, the director of the Office of
Management and Budget said
Friday.
“There are those who will re
sist...there are a lot of interest
groups,” said OMB Director
Bert Lance. “There will be a lot
of effort to make sure we don’t
go too far.”
However, Lance said, the
reorganization program re
mains at the top of Carter’s
priorities.
“You can be assured a lot of
his time will be involved in it,”
Lance told the Management
Conference Board of Emory
University’s school of business.
Carter, as governor of Geor
gia, reorganized the state gov
ernment, and began his cam
paign for the presidency with a
pledge to do the same for the
federal government.
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Hundreds have found dependable, reasonable, highly
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Where individualized Personal Care Prevails.
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Funeral Service
Griffin—Jackson—Barnesville
charges by a Thomas County
grand jury.
Officers had arrested 21
people by Friday night on
charges of selling illegal drugs.
Names were being withheld un
til the arrests were completed,
but Sheriff Carlton Powell said
most of those arrested were
from Thomas County.
The arrests were the result of
a five-month undercover inves
tigation conducted by two GBI
undercover agents and a Thom
asville policeman.
Officers said marijuana was
the predominate substance in
volved, but that some other
drugs, including heroin and co
caine, were involved.
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